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A socket usable, e.g., with an audio connector, comprises a plastics body having chambers running forwardly of the rear of the body and communicating with the front via apertures through which the connector pins pass. Each chamber receives and supports a bifurcated contact in a position to grip and

A socket usable, e.g., with an audio connector, comprises a plastics body having chambers running forwardly of the rear of the body and communicating with the front via apertures through which the connector pins pass. Each chamber receives and supports a bifurcated contact in a position to grip and engage a pin passed into the chamber via the aperture. The contacts are flat－blanked from sheet metal and edge portions of the heads are received in slots extending the length of the chambers. An edge of each contact has a tag twisted out of the plane of the contact and received in a deeper portion of one of these slots. Each contact extends rearwardly of the body to facilitate its electrical connection to a lead. Each contact has a tail and the tails of the different contacts may be of different lengths so that the tips of projections thereon lie in a plane. The projections of different contacts may be on the tail leading or trailing edges so they are at different distances from the plane of the rear of the body. The socket has a frontal slot to receive a skirt on the connector and a further chamber runs from the rear of the body to the slot. A clip is located in the further chamber with a hook part engaging the back of the slot and another part passing into the slot to engage and hold the skirt when it is inserted. The socket has a flange by which it can be fixed to equipment casing. The method of making the socket and an electrical circuit incorporating at least one socket are described.

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An electrical socket for use with a connector comprising a body supporting on one face thereof one or more pins of predetermined size and disposition which in use are received in apertures in the socket, the socket comprises a body of plastics material having front and rear surfaces, a plurality of

An electrical socket for use with a connector comprising a body supporting on one face thereof one or more pins of predetermined size and disposition which in use are received in apertures in the socket, the socket comprises a body of plastics material having front and rear surfaces, a plurality of chambers each extending from said rear surface toward said front surface and communicating with said front surface by way of an individually associated aperture the diameter of which is less than the diameter of the chamber, a contact element supported in each said chamber in a position to engage and electrically contact a pin of a said connector for use with the socket passed thereto from said front surface and through said individually associated aperture, each said contact element being of resilient metal construction and comprising an elongate first part which is substantially flat and has edge portions, said first part of each said contact element being supported in said chamber in which it is located with at least one edge portion thereof received in a slot formed in a wall of the chamber to extend the length thereof from said rear surface, and wherein the depth of one of said slots extending over a part of its length forwardly from the rear surface of the body is of greater depth than the remainder of the length of said slot, the edge portion of the said first part of each contact element is formed with a tag which extends in the plane of said first part away from said edge portion and is received in said part of said at least one slot of said greater depth, and wherein said tag is twisted out of the plane of the said first part of said contact element such that edges of said tag bear against walls of said part of said at least one slot of said greater depth.